The grammar schools debate, which gets so many politicians hot under the collar in Westminster, has reached boiling point in Northern Ireland as Sinn Fein, which has the education brief in the Stormont Assembly, is trying to ban selection.

Robert McCartney, who chairs the National Grammar Schools Association, and Sinn Fein's education spokesman John O'Dowd, spoke to Anita Anand who was in the Westminster studio with Danny Finkelstein from the Times and Nick Watt from the Guardian.

George Kinsella, the father of the murdered teenager Ben Kinsella, on Jack Straw's announcement about minimum terms for killings. The new proposals take the minimum sentence for murder with a knife closer to that of murder with a firearm.

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw and Ex-Conservative leader Michael Howard on the latest jobless figures which show unemployment rose between July and September by 30,000 to 2.46 million, putting the unemployment rate at 7.8%.

The American authors of Freakonomics - which has sold millions of copies worldwide - are in the UK promoting the sequel and are meeting David Cameron. Adam Fleming reports on the Tory leader's bedtime reading and spoke to authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt.

Campaigners from the music industry say licences are preventing musicians and publicans from making a decent living, and government inaction is putting the future of the live music scene in jeopardy. Former lead singer of the Undertones Feargal Sharkey, and the Culture and Licensing Minister Gerry Sutcliffe gave their views on the row over the licences after a montage featuring Tony Blair on guitar, David Blunkett on drums, Lembit Opik playing harmonica, Ed Balls on drums, Feargal Sharkey singing Teenage Kick and Andy Burnham playing guitar.

Former Millenium Dome supremo PY Gerbeau and Olympics minister Tessa Jowell clash on the plans for the London 2012 games. He thinks London should pull out - despite him backing the UK bid over his native France. The minister said the budget was fixed and "not a penny more" would be spent over the current £9.325bn budget.